An organization with ties to the Chinese Communist Party has unveiled new plans on how the government can enforce its restrictions on churches, including forced registration with state-run Christian institutions.
Believers with Muslim and Buddhist backgrounds are the most persecuted Christian groups in China, according to a watchdog organization. And those Christians are in urgent need of Bibles in their own languages.
China has tightened its ‘choke-hold’ on churches across the country in recent weeks, according to the rights and religious freedom group China Aid.
The growth of the Christian faith in China continues its remarkable rise, with one pastor reporting as many as 100,000 new followers of Christ per year, despite the worsening human rights abuses and crackdown by Communist authorities.
The greater the persecution, the greater the revival. It’s a phrase Chinese Christians are using these days, and with good reason.
Chinese authorities in Zhejiang province have postponed the trial of five Christians who have been detained for defending their rights.
Last month local police detained three Christians in China’s Guangdong province for possessing religious materials, including a Bible.
The pastor of a state-run church in China’s Zhejiang province was recently released after eight months in detention.
Authorities in China’s Zhejiang province demolished a three-story church building in April after declaring that the elevation of its cross was too high.
The wife of a church leader in China’s Henan province was buried alive with her husband under the rubble of their demolished church where she suffocated and died on April 14.
The pastor of an official church in Zhejiang Province was sentenced after he dared to criticize Communist authorities about China’s ongoing demolition of church crosses.
Authorities have been harassing unofficial house churches in the Chinese province of Guangdong that haven’t submitted to the Communist Party’s Three-Self Association program.
Chinese authorities have again resumed removing crosses from churches in Zhejiang province.
Yet another church has been shut down in China under the Communist regime’s notorious “anti-cult” campaign.
China continues to oppress members of religious groups and often singles out those representing them for torture.
The demolition of church crosses by Chinese Communists has spread from Wenzhou to Zhejiang province after five Catholic churches had their crosses forcibly removed last week.
Chinese provincial officials in Zhejiang have proposed a ban on the placement of all new crosses atop all Christian buildings.
The Hong Kong Catholic Diocese has become concerned about the state of the Catholic Church in mainland China.
There has been a flood of conversions to Christianity in China for both its Catholic and Protestant sects, according to Asia News.
By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent BEIJING (Worthy News)– About 4 a.m. on Oct. 17, hundreds of uniformed Chinese agents blocked all the entrances to Kaiyang village, then climbed over the Kaiyang Church wall, broke into the church building and forcibly removed its cross. International Christian Concern also reported that two other church crosses in Zhejiang Province were removed that same day. This campaign of church cross removal has been carried out by China’s Zhejiang provincial government for more than six months. Now, the only cross left belongs to Zengshan Church in Pingyang County, but nearly one hundred Christians are … Read more